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Passenger screening processes

CHAPTER 1

AN OVERVIEW OF INSPECTION PROCESSES AND MODERN SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES AT THE AIRPORT

Passenger screening processes

Screening of passengers, crew members of civil aircraft, personnel of carry-on baggage operations, baggage, cargo, mail and aircraft stores is made in order to ensure security, protection of life and health of passengers, crew members and airline personnel, combat possible attempts to capture (hijack) civil aircraft and other acts of unlawful interference with civil aviation from criminal elements and to prevent the smuggling of weapons, ammunition, explosive, poisonous, flammable and other dangerous substances and items prohibited for carriage in the air transport under the terms of aviation security.

The main objective of screening is timely prevention and suppression of attempts of people with arms, ammunition, substances who want to penetrate onto board of civil aircraft, including objects that can be used as a weapon of attack on the crew and passengers of these aircrafts with the purpose of capturing (stealing) or may cause an incident (aviation).

The inspection is carried out for all domestic and international flights operated by airlines and other operators regardless of ownership and departmental affiliation. Screening of passengers charter flights is made on a general basis.

The intermediate destinations transit passengers can not be inspected if after exit from the aircraft prior to landing they were in a sterile area.

There are four screening functions at checkpoints:

¾ X-ray screening of carry-on items; 


¾ WTMD screening of individuals; 


¾  hand-wand or pat-down screening of individuals; 


¾ physical search of passenger’s carry-on items or inspection with an ETD passengers.

Fig.1.1 Checkpoint physical layout

Personal passenger screening is compulsory in cases:

a) receipt of reports of impending seizure (hijacking) of aircraft performing a definite flight in certain direction;

b) receipt of reports of the presence of a passenger of weapons, ammunition, explosives, explosives and other dangerous substances and items prohibited for carriage;

c) detection of the passenger hand baggage weapons, ammunition, explosives, explosives and other dangerous substances and items prohibited for carriage;

d) the identification of signs of suspicious behavior and actions of the passenger, testifying to his criminal intent or suspicious about the possible presence of his weapons, ammunition, dangerous substances and items prohibited for carriage by specialists of the Aviation Safety through personal observation.

 

Screening of passengers occurs in the following order:

1. The passenger is offered to put out all metal objects, containing in their cloths (cigarette cases, keys, cigarette packs, etc.) and go through the stationary metal frame.

2. When an alarm warns about the presence of metal objects in the passenger clothes, manual metal detector is used to specify the location of these objects.



3. After extraction and testing these items control passage of passengers is carried out through the stationary metal detector frame.

4. Objects, outwardly projecting, but not visually viewed in the clothing and do not trigger metal detectors, are presented for examination.

5. When an alarm is activated personal screening of the passenger is made in a separate room.

6. Personal passenger screening is out in the limits necessary for the detection of weapons, ammunition, dangerous substances and items prohibited for carriage in the civil aircraft.

Carry-On Baggage

ETD passengers whose carry-on items are deemed suspicious by the X-ray security officer as having prohibited items, who alarm the WTMD, or who are designated as selectees, that is, passengers selected by the Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System other processes to receive additional screening, are inspected by hand-wand or by pat-down, or by trace portals that are installed at a limited number of airports, and have their carry-on items screened for explosives traces or physically searched.

If the bag is selected for secondary screening, it may be opened and examined on a table in the presence of passenger. It is prohibited to attempt to assist the screener during the search, and to attempt to retrieve the item before the screener has advised that the search is complete and the baggage is cleared.

Pat-Down Inspection

A pat-down inspection complements the hand-wand inspection. In order to ensure security, this inspection may include sensitive areas of the body. Screeners are rigorously trained to maintain the highest levels of professionalism.

The passenger may request that your pat-down inspection be conducted in private.

Physical search

At airports where there are no stationary metal detectors, screening of passengers is carried out by hand metal detectors and carry-on luggage is implemented by hand.

The decision about admission of the passenger for the flight and imposing on him an administrative penalty should be made depending on the severity of seized weapons, ammunition, dangerous substances and items.

The rights of the passenger at the screening point

When the passenger enters the screening point, he/she is taken to consent to each screening procedure, except frisk search. If a frisk search is required, a person will be asked to consent to that process. Each passenger has the right to refuse the consent to frisk or to any other screening process, however, if he/she refuses to be screened, it will not be allowed to pass through the security screening point or board the flight.

 


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